A method and system provide for selectively distributing communications between an application and multiple servers, allowing cooperative use of a single copy of an application. The system is situated between an application and the multiple servers. Requests from the application, responses to the requests,...http://www.google.de/patents/US5887170?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5887170 - System for classifying and sending selective requests to different participants of a collaborative application thereby allowing concurrent execution of collaborative and non-collaborative applications